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My Brush with Greatness
More than a few years
ago (1997) I was assigned by Vietnam Veterans Against the War
to escort Country Joe McDonald around when he was in town for a VVAW
fundraiser.
My wife and I took him to dinner. That would be good enough, but it
gets better.
At dinner he told us he was trying to figure out how to bring a
half-sized replica of the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial to San Francisco for a festival. The moving
wall had been
built by a group in Waukegan, IL and they rented it out, along with a
trailer to haul it.
I soon determined that I was available,
and I had a new Jeep Grand Cherokee,
so when Joe mentioned all expenses would be paid I volunteered to drive
it west.
I arrived in SF and delivered the wall to Golden Gate Park where I
discovered that the
festival was the 30th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and I had a
backstage pass.
So I rubbed shoulders with the
Starship, the Pranksters, Mountain Girl, Wavy Gravy
and the other VIPs. I even managed to knock back a free backstage beer
with
Milwaukee native Will Durst.
John from Milwaukee